* UW's [http://2011.igem.org/Team:Washington iGEM Team] wins the Grand Prize at the 2001 iGEM Jamboree. Congratulations to all the [http://2011.igem.org/Team:Washington/Team/Members students and advisors] who showed that UW has the best synthetic biology students in the world! (11/2011)

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* The Klavins Lab bids farewell to Rob Egbert, who is now a postdoc in Adam Arkin's lab at UC Berkeley. (7/2013)

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* '''SOSLab is looking for new [[Postdoctoral_Scholar_Positions|postdocs]] and [[Prospective|Ph.D. students]].'''

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* Congratulations to Kyle Havens who is now at [http://www.pregenen.com/ Pregenen]. (7/2013)

* New paper in PNAS: [http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/21/1205693109.abstract Fine-tuning gene networks using simple sequence repeats]! Read also the [http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/27/1214118109.full.pdf+html commentary] by Prindle and Hasty. The paper is highlighted on [http://www.genomeweb.com/blog/week-pnas-180 GenomeWeb] too! (8/2012)

* Sonia Singhal (Kerr Lab) and Rob Egbert made a cool movie of E. coli exposed to a burst of ampicillin in our ONIX system. The CellAsic company has put it on their web page [http://www.cellasic.com/ONIX_bacteria.html#Movies here]. Click on "Antibiotic Burst". Poor little cells. (8/2012)

* Our [[Projects|auxin synthetic biology project]], in collaboration with the Jennifer Nemhauser, [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013461469_paulallen18m.html has been funded] by the Allen Foundation! (11/2010)

* New grant from the National Science Foundation: [http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1002220 Estimation & Observation of Stochastic Biochemical Networks]. Congratulations to co-PI David Thorsley, on whose research this grant is based. (6/2010)

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* NAKFI has awarded the participants in the robustness subgroup a grant to form a competition to make the most robust synthetic biological systems. The contest is called [http://openwetware.org/wiki/CAGEN CAGEN], for ''critical assessment of genetically engineered networks''. (5/2010)

* The 2nd [http://faculty.washington.edu/thorsley/banff09/ Workshop on Stochasticity in Biochemical Reaction Networks] will be held in Banff, Sept. 25-27, 2009.

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* UW's [http://soslab.ee.washington.edu/igem/index.html iGEM] team goes to Cambridge and brings back a bronze medal. Congratulations! (11/2008)

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* Caltech and UW are awarded $10M from the National Science Foundation for the '''Molecular Programming Project'''! Read the [http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112075&org=NSF&from=news press release] or visit the [http://www.ist.caltech.edu/mpp/ MPP website]. (9/2008)

* SOSLab awarded an "[http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/rfps/ARichardNewtonAwards.aspx A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award]" from [http://research.microsoft.com/ Microsoft] to study stochastic processes inside single cells of genetically engineered bacteria. See [[Papers|David Thorsley's ACC 2008 Paper]] for the main idea. See also this [http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/newton/newton-campus-obituary.html obituary] of A. Richard Newton, in whose honor these awards were given. (3/2008)

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* The ''Center for Molecular Cybernetics'', an NSF Chemical Bonding Center dedicated to the study of single-molecule robots, launches its [http://www.thespiderworld.com/index.htm new web site] (12/2007).

Sonia Singhal (Kerr Lab) and Rob Egbert made a cool movie of E. coli exposed to a burst of ampicillin in our ONIX system. The CellAsic company has put it on their web page here. Click on "Antibiotic Burst". Poor little cells. (8/2012)